Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku - Zbigniew Rokita

For most of my life I considered Silesians to be cavemen with a pick and a roulade. I repressed my Silesianness. In elementary school, Mrs. Chmiel played us Rota on the accordion, and I had no idea that the spitting in the face German from the song was my ancestor. I knew little about my roots. I didn't believe that any history had taken place in Silesia before the war. My ancestors were as if from another planet, they bore some impossible names: Urban, Reinhold, Liselotte. Then there was that Nazi brothelmama, a major from the Caucasus, a great-grandfather on “delegations” in Poland in September 1939, a tombstone with a scraped name by the compost. Something was cracking. I realized that an alternative history had happened behind the fence, history turned inside out. I decided to poke around, try to put it together. And what I didn't find there: nearly a million people declaring a “non-existent” nationality, an ecological disaster of unknown proportions, stories about a Polish colony, about separatism and people cheering for the wrong national team. This is our silezjogonia.

The book is written in Polish.

Technical data
Author: Zbigniew Rokita
Cover: softbound
Number of pages: 320
Format: 12.5 x 19.5 cm
Year of publication: 2020
Publisher: Czarne